Transferring and stamping designs



UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

BENSON D. BALDWIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TRANSFERRING AND STAMPING DESIGNS, &c., UPON BOTTLES 0R GLASS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 240,002, dated April 12,. 1881.

I Application filed August 14, 1880. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENsoN D. BALDWIN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Transferring, Imprinting, Impressing, or Stamping Letters, Labels, Designs, or Desired Forms upon Bottles or Glass or other transparent or semi-transparent substances or compositions; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the'saine.

Heretofore labels, designs, or desired forms have been afiixed or impressed upon glass or bottles by pasting them thereon, or by the process of decalcomaina; but these methods are clumsy, inefficient, easily erased, and, unless great care and skill is preserved, the result is defective and unsatisfactory to the eye, attractiveness ofappearance and difficulty of erasure being the prominent virtues desired in labeling bottles or impressing designs upon glass or bottles.

The object ofmy invention is to print, stamp, transfer, or aflix' certain desired labels, word designations, or designs upon glass or bottles in a cheap, simple, effective, and attractive manner, which-will not hide the contents of the bottle or interfere materially with the opposite object on the other side of the glass, and which will closely approximate in excellence the costly cutting or engraved work upon glass, and in appearanceandexcellence equaling letters and designs produced upon glass by the use of gold or other metal leaf.

To carry my invention into effect I first pro cure gum or elastic type of any flexible material, representing the letters or desired devices to be impressed or formed upon the glass. Upon this type I roll or press a tack or sizing, which tack or sizing is transferred to the slightly-uneven surface of the glass or bottle by pressing the elastic type against the glass or bottle, said tack or sizing adhering to the glass and making a complete copy of the letters, forms, or designs desired to be impressed and retained upon the glass. I then sprinkle, sift, or rub bronze, gold, or other dust, or any composition of any other color desired, upon this tack or sizing, so that the same may be entirely covered by adhering to the same. The use of flexible type, however, for printing upon curved orirregularsurfaces,iswellknown. The bottles or glass are then placed in an oven and kept at an even temperature of about 150? Fahrenheit for a space of between twenty-four and forty-eight hours, at which time the label or result is then complete, and a new and beantiful composition, label, letter, or design appears upon the glass of such hardness as to appear part of the glass itself. The tack or sizing, used as aforesaid,'should be made of old boiled linseed or other similar oil; but I do not wish to confine myself to the use of this particular kind of tack or sizing.

I do not desire to confine myself to the exact composition of sizing or tack above given, nor to the precise range of temperature and time given to produce the result; but I have found in my experience that the process above given produces the desired results:

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improvement in the art of ornamenting or affixing desired forms upon glass, the method herein described of transferring, y means of elastic type, the desired letters or forms in size or tacky substance, to be thus transferred, and sprinkling or covering of such sizing so transferred with bronze, gold, or

other ornamental dust or powder, and setting the same on the glass by means of heat, substantially as above described. 7

BENSON D. BALDWIN.

Witnesses:

D. J. PowERs, F. B. Buss. 

